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Kennedy Has His Attention Focused on a State-Regulated Pollution Problem in St. Petersburg.

News Channel 8
September 5, 2008
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spends a lot of time on environmental causes ranging from global warming to Hudson River pollution. read more »
Chemical fears bring community to prominent law firm

northjersey.com
July 25, 2008
The New York law firm of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ... has been retained by borough residents living in a Pompton Lakes neighborhood where contamination by DuPont has been discovered. read more »
The Kind of Story I Wish Was Fiction

foxbusiness.com
April 17, 2008
The story about a cancer cluster caused by a plant that was dumping toxic waste in the ground and throughout the water system? read more »
Kennedy's Law Firm Asked to Represent Champaign Residents

news-gazette.com
April 2, 2008
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s, law firm is looking into representing residents who live near a contaminated former manufactured coal-gas plant site in north Champaign. read more »
RFK Jr. Adds Heft
to Ford Fight

northjersey.com
March 11, 2008
Kennedy's law firm is involved in a lawsuit by neighborhood residents against Ford Motor Co. read more »
DuPont Is Ordered to Pay $196.2 Million in Dumping Case

Associated Press
October 19, 2007
DuPont Co. was ordered Friday to pay $196.2 million in punitive damages for deliberately dumping... read more »
Decades After a Plant Closes, Waste Remains

New York Times
July 29, 2007
In the summer of 2005, around the time that residents of Upper Ringwood, N.J., began to wonder whether the skin rashes, nose bleeds and bronchitis that plagued their community... read more »
Ramapough Mountain Indians File Suit Against Ford Motor Company Over Toxic Contamination

WATERKEEPER
January 18, 2006
The lawsuit alleges that defendants dumped thousands of tons of paint sludge and other toxic material, thereby contaminating the soil, air and groundwater of the community. 
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The Kind of Story I Wish Was Fiction

April 17, 2008 | pdf » | link »
Foxbusiness.com
By Alexis Glick

Remember that book that I told you I was reading over vacation — The Appeal by John Grisham? The story about a cancer cluster caused by a plant that was dumping toxic waste in the ground and throughout the water system? The class action suit filed against a publicly-traded company?

This morning, I interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio, both very well known lawyers. Kennedy, a big defender of the environment and considered a trailblazer for his fight to help clean up the Hudson River. Papantonio, a partner at one of the largest plaintiffs’ law firms in the country.
They came on the show to talk about a class action lawsuit that they filed on April 11th against Raytheon (RTN: 56.29, -0.64, -1.12%), a huge defense and aerospace systems supplier. The lawsuit concerns a facility in St. Petersburg, Fla. which residents believe has released toxins into the water and its neighboring environment. The toxic chemicals — trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride and dioxane — are all believed to be responsible for cancer, birth defects and death. It’s a very sad story about what has happened to this area in Florida. The damages are estimated to be between $250 and $400 million. The case could take two years to settle.

I hear and read about these stories, but I’ve never interviewed the attorneys filing the class action lawsuit – until today. We also contacted Raytheon and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. They had a different story.